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Open Source Sketch

almost 6 years ago from Nick Dominguez, Product Designer

  • barry saundersbarry saunders, almost 6 years ago

    There are already open source vector editors, like Inkscape, as well as image editors like Gimp. Going open source doesn't guarantee market share.

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    • Nick Dominguez, almost 6 years ago

      Fair point. Though I would argue that user experience and/or feature set to some of those editors have constrained their adoption.

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      • barry saundersbarry saunders, almost 6 years ago

        For sure. My suspicion is that you need a strong product team with a clear vision to create a strong feature set, and it's pretty hard to do that with open source software.

        (it's also difficult compared to open-source software utilities for engineers because they're software engineers already! Not so many designers are software engineers)

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